Bachelor's in Music

Campus Bachelor Full Time
Delivery
Campus
Study mode
Full Time
Level
Bachelor
Starts
Fall, Spring

Introduction

Music is a Bachelor program taught at Occidental College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

The Music program at Occidental College is an undergraduate degree that covers performance, composition, music theory, history, production, and conducting. Students also study topics such as film scoring, live sound engineering, and the music industry, with one-on-one mentorship on projects in performance, ethnomusicology, music history, production, or composition.

Learning connects classroom work with recording and performance. Students record in the Choi Family Music Production Center, perform in chamber and ensemble works and operatic and orchestral productions, tour with the Glee Club, and collaborate with MAC students on film scoring. Students can also pursue internships at companies such as Warner Music, Monotone Management, TMWRK Management, and the Grammy Museum.

Modules

  • Senior Comprehensive Project
  • Performance Focus
  • Music Studies Focus
  • Music Creation Focus
  • Composition Focus and Concentration
  • Production Focus and Concentration
  • Introduction to Film Scoring
  • Live Sound Engineering
  • Topics in American Music: Punk & Metal in America
  • Introduction to the Music Industry
  • Music Business Negotiations
  • Instrumental & Vocal Arranging

Admission Requirements

The minimum requirements for admission in Music at Occidental College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

  • program specific academic requirment set by Occidental College.
  • English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Occidental College as pre-requiste for admission in Music.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Courses Units

Please check detail of study units at https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/music

More Information

  • Tech Assistant to film composer James Newton Howard
  • Music Producer/Engineer/Writer
  • Talent Director, MTRNM Management
  • Touring musician & signed recording artist: swanskin
  • Emmy-nominated film composer
  • Manager of Inclusion Strategy, Netflix
  • Ph. D. program, historical musicology, Harvard University
  • Warner Music
  • Monotone Management
  • TMWRK Management
  • the Grammy Museum

Scholarships

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.